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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 14. Next Sin it self, there is the natural consequent of it, which is caused by the sinner himself. As 1. That God doth not complacentially Love him: which is no change in God, whose Nature is to Love Good and Hate Evil; but in the sinner himself, who hath made himself uncapable.
2. And that Gods Hatred is terminated on the sinner, is his own doing▪ Even as he that would open his naked breast to the scorching Sun, or cold Frost, is hurt by himself. When God hateth a sinner and delighteth in a Saint, there is no Diversity in Him, but in Them.
3. The loss of Right to Heaven and all Gods special benefits, is their own work, and not by any change in God. God made a Deed of Gift of Heaven to the faithful: And if they be unfaithful, it is their own doing to cast away or refuse that right.
4. Abundance of temporal mercies mens sins cast away. For